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A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed...
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Much that passes for education … is not education at all but ritual. The...
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Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.
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To have doubted one’s own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
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Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech...
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Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won...
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And since you know you cannot see yourself, so well as by reflection, I,...
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If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow...
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It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship....
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Success didn’t spoil me, I’ve always been insufferable.